A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life (p. 126). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I understand the difficulties of facing the future. To many, the unknown is always scary and it can also be viewed as the present over and over and that makes it bad if their present is bad. But Erwin says, “We must believe there is a future worth fighting for. We simply can’t fight the future. The future is coming whether we like it or not. In fact, there is nothing we can do to stop it from coming. This doesn’t mean we are powerless when it comes to the future, but it does mean we have to take a different stance toward engaging it.” He goes on, “You can’t fight the future, but you can create the future. To fight the future is to ensure that you will be lost and left behind to the past. For some, the idea of standing your ground is a desperate resolution to
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...